Since my answer is distro-specific I'm taking this to another list. Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 12:29:06 schrieb Will Stephenson:
I'm wondering what to do regarding supporting PIM 4.7 for openSUSE 12.1. The migration issues and the resource usage in a successful clean IMAP setup have chased many users away to Thunderbird. Right now, I wish I had invested time in making 4.4 work with kdepimlibs 4.7.
So I have been cherrypicking commits into our 4.7.2 packages for online update, but as of last week, 4.7 branch will be left alone.
I have 3 choices: * ship kdepim* 4.7.4 as an online update * cherrypick the most important fixes from 4.7 branch to our released version 4.7.2 * wait for 4.8.0 in January and online update to that
I would propose the following (if at all possible). There is not much to do about 4.8.0 now, so if you spend your time packaging 4.7.4 and updating STABLE with it and all patches that upstream pushes into 4.7 no time for 4.8 or backporting is lost. Ship 4.7.4 as recommended update in December and 4.8.0 as an optional update some weeks after it was released, maybe wait until 4.8.1, but do not spend any time on adding patches and backporting etc. just ship it as is. The good thing about the update repo is that you can always roll back, i.e. if the 4.7.4 packages do not work for a user they can revert to the oss ones. If the 4.8.0 packages do not work they can revert to either 4.7.4 or oss packages. So even if there were regressions that slip through it does not get worse for the user because he can revert – which is different to using any other KDE- repo. Maybe that possibility should be mediated on blogs and mailinglists before the 4.8.0 one. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org